Rabbi Yehuda Amital was an extraordinary and original Israeli religious leader and public figure. The sole member of his family to survive the Holocaust, he made his way to Israel in 1944 and fought in Israel's War Of Independence. He went on to become one of the country's most influential rabbis and educators, and a builder of seminal institutions, including the joint yeshiva-army hsder program, Yeshivat Har Etzion and the Meimad political movement